People are sharing the life skills they lack – these 15 are highly relatable
Being an adult can be tedious or difficult at times, with all the stuff we wish we could foist onto someone else, like cleaning the toilet, running the gauntlet of insurance quotes, or listening to the increasingly bizarre claims and policies emanating from Downing Street. But sometimes, a skill we should have simply eludes us, such as journalist Jenée Desmond Harris‘ landlord’s problem, which she told us about with this post:
Yesterday we learned that our landlord (a Stanford-educated engineer) doesn't know how to open a combination lock. And Joel admitted he can't blow up balloons. So now I'm obsessed with knowing what everyone's weird life skill blind spots are.
— Jenée (@jdesmondharris) August 4, 2019
She thought there was a probable reason for this blindspot.
(We realized our landlord didn't got to middle school or high school in the US so maybe didn't have a locker and missed the only reason many of us had to learn to open a combination lock)
— Jenée (@jdesmondharris) August 4, 2019
People soon began confessing their lack of skills to her, and we’ve collected the best.
1.
I look at an analog clock way too long before I can tell what time it is smh
— Ashley C. Ford (@iSmashFizzle) August 4, 2019
2.
Still don't know how to tie my shoes. I mean I do but….not that one loop, wrap the string around, loop it under method. Grown ass man out here still doing the two bunny ears. Sad.
— Beyonce has an uncle named Larry Beyince. Bruh…. (@DragonflyJonez) August 4, 2019
3.
I DONT EVEN KNOW WHERE TO BEGIN TYING A TIE. IVE WATCHED YOUTUBE TUTORIALS AND ALL THAT, STILL CANT DO IT.
— THE KID MERO 🇩🇴 (@THEKIDMERO) August 4, 2019
4.
I'm so bad at navigation that my friends use my gut feeling as an indicator of the wrong/opposite direction to go😫.
— Keni (@KeniLF) August 4, 2019
5.
I can’t shuffle cards. I just mush them around the table until it feels done
— Sam Kuhn (@ElSKuhn) August 4, 2019
6.
I have to think consciously right to tighten, left to loosen every time I have to tighten or loosen a screw. Also when I turn a key, left to unlock, right to lock.
— Rebecca J. Kavanagh (@DrRJKavanagh) August 4, 2019
7.
gotta hold up my thumbs to know left from right tbh
— Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) August 4, 2019
8.
The billing lady at my OB tried to explain something about my insurance deductible for about 20 minutes and I almost cried. You could explain deductibles 1000 times to me and I’ll understand it for about 30 seconds, tops.
— SecretlyStephie (@SecretlyStephie) August 4, 2019
